Saturday was my 1 year anniversary of quitting smoking. I haven’t faltered even once in that full year. Its actually to the point where if I smell smoke I get nauseous, whether its people smoking, or just the smell of smoke on their clothes. I do still get the occasional craving under some stressful situations, […]
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365 Days of Being Smoke Free
Posted: 25th January 2010 by Luc "Sandman" G. in LifeTags: Add new tag, Addictions, quit smoking, Quitting, Tobacco, Tobacco smoking
Baby Gareau Ultrasound
Posted: 6th January 2010 by Luc "Sandman" G. in LifeTags: baby gareau, imaging, pregnancy, Ultrasound
My wife had her 3rd ultrasound today and I’m more and more amazed on how rapidly our little bundle of joy is growing. Baby Gareau is now 7.5cm long, has full legs, arms, hands and feet. Its heart rate is a powerful 147 bpm. At 7.5cm long, the July 13th due date is dead on […]
My Top List of the Decade
Posted: 30th December 2009 by Luc "Sandman" G. in Entertainment, Life, Movies, Music, TelevisionTags: Death Magnetic, Family Guy, Nine Inch Nails, Smallville, Top 10, Top 2000, Top 2000-2009, Top decade
Wow, its mindblowing to think how fast the last decade flew by. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was busy updating thousands of router configs to combat the Y2K bug. Hard to believe that this was 10 years ago already. Like many sites out there, I felt compelled to come up with […]
Wonderful Wife Wins Sens Tickets
Posted: 28th September 2009 by Luc "Sandman" G. in Hockey, LifeTags: Ottawa, Ottawa Senators, Team 1200, TGOR
Not only am I lucky that I have a loving wife who loves hockey and football as much as I do, her knowledge of hockey won her pairs of tickets to 3 Ottawa Senators games this morning! She called in to TGOR on Team 1200 and won the tickets and a hat. They’re a great […]
Rapid Fire #3
Posted: 29th July 2009 by Luc "Sandman" G. in Entertainment, Funny & Weird, Movies, MusicTags: Dean DeLeo, Denzel Washington, Ice Age 3 review, Ice Age 3D, Movie reviews, Ottawa Bluesfest, Ottawa precipitation summer 2009, ottawa rain July, Ottawa rain july 2009, Scott Weiland, Shake Weight exercise for women, Stone Temple Pilots, STP Ottawa, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
rapid-fire (rap′id fÄ«r′) adjective done, delivered, proceeding, or carried on swiftly and sharply On Monday July 13th I finally got to see a band that I’ve been wanting to see in concert for many many many years; Stone Temple Pilots. STP were playing the Cisco Bluesfest festival here in Ottawa. Even though we were cold […]